Tatsumi's Quotes

#1. The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies.

Adrian Tomine

#2. When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#3. It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

Elliott Smith

#4. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#5. The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

Tatsumi Hijikata

#6. There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#7. Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. A man shouldn't go crying like that, people will think you're weak.

Ryuhei Tamura

#9. The rat gave birth. Six little ones ... cute baby rats ... None of them are like Hitler.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

#10. I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

Peter Beard

#11. Sam." I felt like I was choking. Or drowning. Maybe some of both. He stopped walking, at any rate. "You asked how I'd know who you were."
Silence.
"I'll always know.

Jodi Meadows

#12. Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

Tatsumi Hijikata

#13. Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

Art Blakey